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Brook Restoration Project

BEFORE

brook restoration
brook restoration
brook restoration
brook restoration
brook restoration
brook restoration
Before photo credit: Barrett Walker

The Candler Park stream restoration project was funded by a US EPA 319 grant received and managed by a coalition of community, environmental, and municipal partners.  (They are listed below.*)  The project removed about 175’ of concrete culvert that had housed the stream since the 1950’s, daylighted another 200’ of underground stream, restored the waterway’s natural meandering shape, and stabilized the stream banks with a combination of large individually-installed rocks surrounded by a variety of native plants.  Black willow (Salix niger) was the anchor species.  Construction took just over a year in 2006-07.

The project was an immediate success biologically, though plant growth was slow until the decade’s drought broke in 2009.  In that year the beavers moved in and began damming the area, creating the first of a series of ponds that today house a huge variety of wetland plant, insect, fish, birds, and mammals.

While beavers have made a significant comeback in the US in the last quarter-century, their long-term residence in Candler Park amidst a hubbub of human activity is a unique and significant restoration success story.  They – and their many cohorts in the riparian community – have become popular and well-established parts of the community, and the biological and habitat benefits they bring provide a model worth replicating throughout Atlanta.

AFTER

Brook restoration
Brook restoration
Brook restoration
Brook restoration
Brook restoration
Brook restoration
After photo credit: Meta Larsson

Project Partners:

Candler Park Neighborhood Organization
City of Atlanta Department of Parks and Recreation
Georgia EPD
Paideia School
Park Pride

Peavine Watershed Alliance
Southwest Waters AmeriCorps
US EPA
Alex C. Walker Foundation

Special thanks to Candler Park resident Teresa Cox, President of APCO Graphics, and the City of Atlanta’s Love Your Block program for donations and grants to fund the cost of the educational sign.

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